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How We Made Strawberry Jam In 2022
Our canning didn’t go super smoothly in 2021. We finally admitted that we were not going to be able to can on the stove, so…
How We Did in the 2022 Derecho – Testing our Preps
We’re not preppers; at least not in the way you see portrayed in the movies. There is no bunker, no weapons, and no stockpile of…
Plant Index updates
It’s been a very busy winter and spring for us! Gardening has begun in earnest, and we will share some information on that in the…
Video: Our 2021 Fall Garlic Planting
We finally got around to editing a video about our fall garlic planting. Bac in October we planted nearly 200 bulbs total, made up of…
Bird Buds Winter 2021: Our beautiful avian visitors
It’s Boxing Day 2021 and what a year it’s been! We’ve been very busy with work, surviving the global pandemic, and some less than great…
How Clueless Hippies Bought a House in Eastern Ontario – Part 1: The Plan
This is the first post in a series which aims to cover all the things we wish we knew about the actual process of buying…
Learning New Skills – 8 Things We Canned in 2021
Food security and being able to store food without refrigeration is something that is really important to us as we look towards being a little…
Ferment Log August 15th – Pickles, tomatoes and bootch
I’m trying something new: keeping better track of our fermentation experiments, both in digital form (here and Instagram) and in a hard-copy notebook. It’s just…
Love growing tomatoes, but hate eating them raw? Dehydrate them!
Okay, time for a confession: we both really dislike raw tomato. We love salsa, bruschetta, tomato sauce, ketchup, soup, etc… but biting into a raw…
Imposter in the Garden: The Black Nightshade Saga
In our last post about cleaning up the existing garden at the new house we mentioned we had pepper plants. Even though that is what…
